Personal Narrative: Slave Runaway Slaves

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“Get down Josh,” I whispered as we crawled through the brush. One of my friends told me we are going to try to escape, so we tried and we got out. The slave catchers were called and started the hunt.(3) We went up on a tree, and the hunters didn’t see us Andy left us alone.(2) The slave catchers ran back to their base and the next morning they started to chase us again. (1) I have been out in the woods for 1 month with no food. I ran away and have been hunted from the day I left. Hey, they call Josh and me runaway slaves. It is terrible getting hunted by a slave catcher. I just keep on going until we found another slave.(3) He was named Finn and I got to eat some food today that he shared.(1) Finn told us how to find the

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